New Talent Nights: Under Milk Wood

Oct 2007
GUU, Debates Chamber
Directed by Matt Romain

‘…we are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood…’
The play has only been rehearsed in the last fortnight, and on a budget the size of a SlimFast advert waistline, but for all that, it looks amazing. Dylan Thomas’ lyric masterpiece Under Milk Wood is a look into the lives of the sixty odd characters that inhabit the curious Welsh fishing village of Larregub; their eccentricities and quaint routines revealed to us during the cycle of one night and day. Under Milk Wood is a touchingly funny caricature of the dynamics within a small town, and of an innocence forgotten. Meet Captain Cat, who dreams of his deceased sea-fellows. Meet Organ Morgan, who dreams of organs. Meet Polly Garter, who dreams of babies. And many more in a cast of thousands (well, more than forty). The cast is so big you probably know someone onstage, and if you don’t, come along anyway!